FALL 2006

Allison Piccolo (Honors project)

Allison followed up her summer work on basins of attraction found in a simple competition map with a project that investigated the impact of initial life-stage distribution on basins of attraction found in the more complicated competition LPA map. Allison found that the initial breakdown into larval and adult life stages has a huge effect on determining the final outcome of competitive interactions, even when total initial populations are left constant.

  Below are three examples showing the change from all larvae to all adults by increments of 1%.